{"id":2760,"date":"2012-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/bill-watson-building-intentional-community-encouraging-people-to-return-to-the-land\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:17:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:17:48","slug":"bill-watson-building-intentional-community-encouraging-people-to-return-to-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/bill-watson-building-intentional-community-encouraging-people-to-return-to-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Watson - Building Intentional Community, encouraging people to return to the land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Frank answers these questions in this week's Green Planet broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>He profiles 7 good news green stories from the past couple of years, then with his guest Bill Watson he discusses an intentional community development plan for a Coromandel site that is being designed to serve as a model for regenerating local economies in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>He advocates that after a quarter century of talking up the paradigm shift, it's now time to take collective action to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>He suggests forming a genuinely alternative political movement to drive that process and outlines the design features &amp; principles that such a movement must incorporate in order to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>People see our global situation as threatened by financial collapse, climate change, destruction of ecosystems by the economy, peak oil, corporate control &amp; corruption, etc - which are all part of business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>What's the alternative? Working together in a better way. <\/p>\n<p>Tune in to find out how!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we're in transition from business as usual to the sustainable society, how do we work together to ease that transition and what should our priorities be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/3535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}